Reverend Ebenezer Thompson Baird (1821–1887) was an influential Presbyterian minister, fundraiser, founder of schools, and missionary.
Ebenezer Baird served as the Secretary of the Committees of Education and Publication in the Presbyterian church.
[2] Baird helped lay the cornerstone of the Broadway Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland on August 13, 1844.
[3][1] Baird helped raise money to start a seminary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
While he was editor of "The St. Louis Presbyterian” from September 1852 to October 1854, Baird’s typesetter was Samuel Clemens, more commonly known as Mark Twain.